I’ve been doing a lot of Organizational Development related work the past nine years. In fact, even before anyone told me that I was doing Organizational Development, I was actually doing it already. Before, OD was merely about training. And so OD departments made training programs and took care of training systems and gave internal trainings and sent people to external training. But over the years, there is a realization that there are other ways to develop an organization aside from training. OD has to do with making the whole organization become a more well-oiled machine, first by intervening in performance management, but now, also by intervening in culture building. Organizations have goals (they call it Vision and Mission, or Objectives and Targets).
I was inspired after reading about this ultra slim wallet and I think this could really work for some people. I don’t have this yet, but after I read about it, I immediately got rid of all the non-essentials in my wallet. I realized there were a lot of stuff there that I don’t really need. This wallet just makes it so much easier for people to keep under control.
I now have a microwave, which was part of the “kitchen showcase” I received when I referred a friend to my real estate broker. I tried to clean it once but had a hard time doing it, until I found this article. I’m sharing this to you in the hope that you will have an easier time than I had before I found this article.
Leo Babauta of ZenHabits gives us a list of the best way to have super fast web browsing. And it’s not about adding on to the internet, it’s about uncluttering and minimalism so that you can do what you really want to do without all the clutter and the bells and whistles…
Mr. Jones was written by lead singer Adam Duritz and guitarist David Bryson.
In an episode of VH1’s Storytellers, Adam explained: “It’s really a song about my friend Marty (Jones, of the band The Himalayans) and I. We went out one night to watch his dad play, his dad was a Flamenco guitar player who lived in Spain, and he was in San Francisco in the mission playing with his old Flamenco troupe. And after the gig we all went to this bar called the New Amsterdam in San Francisco …